Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:50:33 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <20060321225033.GA25375@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44207C6F.6080602@FreeBSD.org> References: <200603211540.k2LFeQ4T055581@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060321164420.GA16788@xor.obsecurity.org> <44202EA9.40603@FreeBSD.org> <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju> <44207C6F.6080602@FreeBSD.org>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:21:35PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote: > Em 21/3/2006 19:18 Edwin Groothuis escreveu: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49:45PM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote: > >> Em 21/3/2006 13:44 Kris Kennaway escreveu: > >>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:40:26PM +0000, Renato Botelho wrote: > >>>> garga 2006-03-21 15:40:26 UTC > >>>> > >>>> FreeBSD ports repository > >>>> > >>>> Modified files: > >>>> Mk bsd.sites.mk=20 > >>>> Log: > >>>> be able to define favourite sourceforge download site just defining > >>>> =20 > >>>> MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE_PREFERED=3Dxxx > >>>> =20 > >>>> on /etc/make.conf > >>>> =20 > >>>> PR: ports/94661 > >>>> Submitted by: edwin > >>> :( > >>> > >>> We already have facilities for sorting. > >> Simon sent me an email after my commit, until it I didn't know > >> MASTER_SORT facility. Now i agree with simon, it's a redundancy. > >=20 > > I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage > > is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not > > documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution > > which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea > > how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even > > I use it now. The solution to users not knowing how to achieve this is to make well-placed "this is how to reprioritize sourceforge downloads" documentation, not to add more special case hacks to fetching that they also probably won't be aware of :-) Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIIM4Wry0BWjoQKURAhA4AJ4sSq9McnluWOOcWJqBeW4f1glGmQCgqDEX To7oZ4W40TsNvUEYSEAs1v0= =qD38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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